When Chika Ekeji enrolled in the MIT Sloan School of Business' full-time MBA program, he was ambivalent about actually finishing his degree. What he was really in school for, he'd decided, was a chance to found his own company.
"I used to joke that I was on the dropout path," says Mr. Ekeji, who while at Sloan helped develop mobile-phone technology that diagnoses impaired vision and an app that helps researchers find field workers in low-income countries. "As soon as I got the right idea, the right team, I was gone."
That's a remarkable attitude for a student at a top-ranked business school, where costs can exceed $85,000 a year. Most MBAs seek steady, jobs in finance or consulting where they can quickly recover their cash and start building wealth. Nevertheless, Mr. Ekeji is part of a rare but growing breed of student: the MBA-entrepreneur who shrugs off anti-MBA snobbery from the entrepreneur community.
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